it's patrolled enough that most people crossing are paying a coyote 5-10k to get across. building a wall might raise the cost a little more, but not much. the place is a rough ridin' militarized zone.

I guess you missed my post about the Internal USGS/USDA directive to near border employees to not approach border crossers because of the possible ties to drug cartels and non availability of DHS assets to arrive in a timely manner.

suprised sys isnt drowning us in polls about the shutdown, must not have any good ones, nate silver on vacation?

there haven't been many polls because there aren't any elections coming up. the polling that has been done shows a little movement towards blaming trump, but not much. as you'd expect, 'pubs like that trump hasn't caved and dems like that pelosi hasn't caved. i'll look for a tweet with the polls and post it, but it's not that interesting.

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a poor person never gave anyone a job. a poor person never gave anybody charity.

suprised sys isnt drowning us in polls about the shutdown, must not have any good ones, nate silver on vacation?

there haven't been many polls because there aren't any elections coming up. the polling that has been done shows a little movement towards blaming trump, but not much. as you'd expect, 'pubs like that trump hasn't caved and dems like that pelosi hasn't caved. i'll look for a tweet with the polls and post it, but it's not that interesting.